Word: pious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Soviet feeling: In an interview with the American journalist Louise Bryant, Lenin said, "America will gain nothing from the pious Wilsonian policy of refusal to do business with us for the simple reason that our government is not to their liking." This statement has stood the test of time. Fantastic allegations about the Soviet Union's ambitions for "world supremacy" and "a world Communist government" may only lead the cause of international intercourse and cooperation into a dangerous deadlock. The hue and cry about "international terrorism" allegedly being masterminded by the Soviet Union is just as absurd...
...hears the little sound of a pious fraud...
...last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive, is quite in that league. Now they are all dead, the artists born between 1880 and 1900 who reshaped both culture and consciousness. Although it would be pious to suppose that much of Miró's work in the last 25 years of his life compared with what he made in the first 50, his passing is emblematic...
Hollywood, the shotgun marriage of art and industry, is never more schizophrenic than at Christmas. With its few "serious" movies (Yentl, Silkwood, Terms of Endearment), Tinseltown acts as pious as a tot on Santa's knee, straining to prove that it has been a model of decorum all year long, daring to ask for a big shiny Oscar. But with its "entertainment"pictures, Hollywood yearns to play Kriss Kringle, filling every Christmas stocking with a cheap thrill or a giddy giggle. So slapdash are these entertainments that the industry looks to be holding a year-end fire sale, with...
...events in Lebanon reveal hypocrisy and a lust for power. The Palestinians and Lebanese, betrayed by their own leaders as well as their Arab "brothers," are now facing a situation similar to that of the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s in Germany. As then, the world mouths pious rhetoric but does nothing...